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Heaven taken
Heaven taken by storm, or, The holy violence a Christian is to put forth in the pursuit after glory by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed by R.W. for Tho. Parkhurst, 1670
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7. How violent was Christ about our 1salvation! He was in an Agony; he continued all night in prayer, Luke 6. 12. He wept, he fasted, he dyed a violent death; he rose violently out of the grave. Was Christ so violent for our salvation, and doth it not become us to ⟨p. 141⟩be violent, who are so nearly concerned in it? Christ's violence was not only satisfactory, but exemplary. It was not only to appease God, but to teach us. Christ was violent in dying, to teach us to be violent in believing.
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8. This holy violence brings Rest*; 2motion tends to rest, Heb. 4. 9. There remaineth a rest for the people of God. Indeed, there is a motion which doth not tend to rest: they who are violent in a way of sin, shall never have rest, Revel. 4. 8. They rest not day and night. Such as are graceless, shall be restless. But the violence a Christian takes, leads to rest. As the weary Traveller sits down at night and rests him, Psal. 116. 7. Return to thy rest, O my soul. Holy violence is like the flying of Noah's Dove to the Ark, where it found rest.
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